This article proposes an estimation on Moroccan and Tunisian matched data of the human capital external effects on wages and of interfirms wage differentials. The data allow to introduce the organizational features and the average human capital of firms into an earnings function. The results...

While intergenerational transmission of human capital has been widely documented by economists, less is known about differences in schooling between siblings. This paper proposes a measure of educational inequality in France using a sample of 27,197 children from 11,694 families. Estimation of...

In France, the various studies that have examined the motivations of parents when giving money to their children do not support the altruistic hypothesis of transfer. This paper reconsiders this issue with a focus on the measurement of private transfers. Predictions of an altruistic model are...

Three theoretical hypotheses can explain the motives behind familial transfers given to the elders : altruism, exchange, and the demonstration effect theory where adults have to set an example by helping their elders if they want to be helped in turn by their children. This paper focuses on a...

In this paper, we examine how children care for their elderly parents and the motives of these family transfers, accounting for interactions between parents and their different children. We study a theoretical model of intergenerational transfers based on altruism, where siblings care for their...

In this paper, we wonder whether public expenditures crowd out or not voluntary contributions made by individuals to associations. According to the theoretical model, both financial and time transfers have to be taken into account. The determinants of these two types of voluntary contributions...